Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books published in May 2024 from CLMP members.
Angora Panties: The Afterthoughts of Loss by Tracy Robert
Choeofpleirn Press | May 1, 2024
Robert’s memoir examines “moments in her life when being female restricted her freedoms, when trying to live up to exacting standards meant severing ties, and, ultimately, losing her sister.”
A Map to the Spring by Lim Deok-Gi
Translated from the Korean by Kim Riwon and Karis J. Han
Codhill Press | May 1, 2024
This collection “beckons readers to embrace the interconnectedness of all living things and find solace in the ever-renewing cycles of nature.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
Cuff’s debut poetry collection “moves through the dissolution of adolescent selfhood in the midst of capitalist excess and nuclear family norms, via the territory of dreams.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This chapbook “seeks to explore the emotional state of melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone.”
Translated from the Portuguese by Odile Cisneros
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
Originally published in 1985, this book consists of 50 “galactic cantoes” and “incorporates literary allusion, citation, and words and phrases in at least a dozen languages.”
Translated from the Persian by Armen Davoudian
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
In Hopscotch, Shams “crafts a vivid liminal world of Berlin-based poems, a canvas where home and exile blur into an intimate middle ground.”
If Seasons Were Kingdoms by Margaret Koger
Fernwood Press | May 1, 2024
According to Ken Rodgers, in these poems Koger “leads us on a journey riddled with puzzles, on a search for the narrator.”
Translated from the Portuguese by Isabel Sobral Campos and Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
According to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, “Lex Icon is a tour de force that catalyzes the dualistic tension between word/thing and human/artifice.”
Lines of Flight by Madhu H. Kaza
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This book-length essay “follows echoes and associative logics across cultures and eras, from Ancient Greece to thirteenth-century Japan to sixteenth-century Mexico to our own time, in an attempt to unfix translation and dwell in the ongoingness of language.”
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber
Book*hug Press | May 1, 2024
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is “a revelatory hybrid collection that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This debut chapbook consists of “pieces of a parallel day full of promise, disassembled for the ecstasy of reinvention.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
In this debut collection, Sullivan “cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable her to narrate an attempted escape from the trappings of narrativity—plot, character, chronology, and the promise of a probable future issuing forth from a stable past.”
Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres by Charles Jensen
Santa Fe Writers Project | May 1, 2024
This memoir follows Jensen “from his upbringing and struggles with sexual awareness in rural Wisconsin to his sexual liberation in college and, finally, to the complex relationships and bizarre coincidences of adulthood.”
The Beautiful Immunity by Karen An-hwei Lee
Tupelo Press | May 1, 2024
According to G. C. Waldrep, this collection is “in part a meditation on the lyric tradition… and in part a revel inside that same tradition, an opulent feast at the table set by the five senses and the mind and heart they serve.”
Black Heron Press | May 1, 2024
Set in San Francisco and the Bay Area, this novel is “about a young man’s passage, about three lives evolving over forty years.”
The Holy Ghost and Other Spooky Stories by Bernie Brown
Current Words Publishing | May 1, 2024
This collection of twenty-seven spooky stories is “guaranteed to ruin a good night’s sleep.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
According to Poupeh Missaghi, “The Naif is an abstract painting made of words and sentences and punctuation or lack thereof, a distant memory whose skin you get to touch and feel as you attempt to find your way through its centers and peripheries.”
The Song Cave | May 1, 2024
This debut poetry collection “is organized into three linked sections, animated by jokes, confusion, existential horror, and banality, often revealing the gaps in understanding that tangle this string of vignettes.”
The Song of North Mountain by Morgan Golladay
Current Words Publishing | May 1, 2024
The Song of North Mountain is “a transformative collection of poetry and art celebrating the famous and mystical North Mountain of Appalachia.”
UPSTAGE by Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2024
This combination of words and visuals juxtaposes “Bruce’s disjunctive mosaics of language collaged out of signage from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Sally’s photographs capturing that town’s distinctive looks and textures and pandemic-era atmosphere.”
Beyond Temples by Martina Reisz Newberry
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
According to Seb Doubinsky, Newberry’s latest collection, is “a wonderful patchwork of colorful musings, reflections and illuminations on the everyday path to wisdom.”
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
In Earth School, Sloan “takes us deep into the earth’s human narrative, from ancient Greece to the war-torn 20th century to the cynical present, extracting memories and stories, and weighing lessons learned in this strange world we inhabit.”
Nietzsche NOW!: The Great Immoralist on the Vital Issues of Our Time by Glenn Wallis
Warbler Press | May 3, 2024
In this book, Wallis “unpacks Nietzsche’s complex philosophy with a deft, empathetic, and brilliantly subtle analysis of the views of the Great Immoralist on democracy, identity, civilization, consciousness, religion, and other momentous topics.”
Night Garden by David Stankiewicz
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
In these poems, Stankiewicz “carries us into our own deep longings—for the sacred, for love, for what has been lost—and for the present moment to be fully realized and overflowing.”
The Word’s Faire | May 3, 2024
This poetry collection “follows the life cycle of every life, as the mysterious narrator is cursed to live out humanity, and slowly become it.”
Tell Me The Moon by Caroline Sulzer
Deerbrook Editions | May 3, 2024
In Tell Me The Moon, Sulzer “uses language to build a rich visual world where we become aware of the profound manifestations of time’s passage.”
Anthology of Awe & Wonder by Dennis Camire
Deerbrook Editions | May 5, 2024
In Anthology of Awe & Wonder, “each ode, each murmuration, each sly revelation exists in a lexical realm all its own, pushing the limits of what the heart and the intellect can do.”
Buster: A Dog by George Pelecanos
Akashic Books | May 7, 2024
Buster is “the story of one dog’s lifelong journey, as told by the animal himself.”
A Professional Lola by E. P. Tuazon
Red Hen Press | May 7, 2024
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, this collection blends “literary fiction with the surreal to present the contemporary Filipino American experience and its universal themes of love, family, and identity.”
A Question of Belonging: Crónicas by Hebe Uhart
Translated from the Spanish by Anna Vilner
Archipelago Books | May 7, 2024
In these stories, Uhart “reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more closely.”
Regal House Publishing | May 7, 2024
In this historical novel, “Akmaral is bound for battle from birth, training as a girl in horsemanship, archery, spear, and blade.”
Wave Books | May 7, 2024
Nealon’s fifth book of poetry, All About You, is “both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it.”
American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
Dalkey Archive Press | May 7, 2024
Cárdenas’s novel “unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century.”
Translated from the Spanish by Heather Houde
Feminist Press | May 7, 2024
The stories in this debut collection depict “the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.”
Bomb Island by Stephen Hundley
Hub City Press | May 7, 2024
Set in Coastal Georgia, Bomb Island explores “subculture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb.”
But There’s So Much DIY in IVF That We Can’t Be Sure by Toby Goostree
Fernwood Press | May 7, 2024
This poetry collection “brings together the story of two couples, a husband and wife going through IVF and Abraham and Sarah from the book of Genesis, finding overlap in the grief of infertility even as their lives are seemingly far apart.”
Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa
Catalyst Press | May 7, 2024
Edited by Rachel Zadok and Helen Moffett, this anthology features 11 writers from Africa and the African diaspora who “explore the identities that connect us, the obsessions that bewitch us, and the self-delusions that drive us apart.”
Commission of Tears by António Lobo Antunes
Translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe
Dalkey Archive Press | May 7, 2024
Lobo Antunes’s novel “weaves together the three voices of daughter, father, and mother as they recall the terrors of their life in Angola, and their own suffering.”
Evocación: Mi vida al lado del Che by Aleida March
Seven Stories Press | May 7, 2024
In this Spanish-language edition, Che Guevara’s widow “remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia.”
Wave Books | May 7, 2024
In the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, Jarnot “examines what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry.”
Geometry of the Restless Herd by Sophie Cabot Black
Copper Canyon Press | May 7, 2024
In these poems, Black “uses the keeping of animals and tending of land to interrogate the self and in turn reveal new truths about the social, economic, and political realities of contemporary America.”
Living with our Dead: On Loss and Consolation by Delphine Horvilleur
Translated from the French by Lisa Appignanesi
Europa Editions | May 7, 2024
This book is “a timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life.”
Coach House Books | May 7, 2024
Tierney’s new collection features “tech-inspired sonnets and prose poems that decode a life through the experience of loss.”
Northwood Meadows: Moments by Andy Chang
Read Furiously | May 7, 2024
Drawn in Chang’s “signature hybrid style of Sunday comics meets Japanese manga,” Northwood Meadows “tackles pop culture, politics, sports, food, and, of course, friendship.”
Translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott
Graywolf Press | May 7, 2024
Not a River is a novel “about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire, written in a style that is spare and timeless.”
Rain Breaks No Bones by Barbara J. Taylor
Akashic Books | May 7, 2024
According to Laurie Loewenstein, “In Rain Breaks No Bones, the shadow of guilt, shame, and anger haunts—sometimes literally—Taylor’s mid-twentieth-century Scranton, Pennsylvania.”
Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara by Aleida March
Translated from the Spanish by Pilar Aguilar
Seven Stories Press | May 7, 2024
March recounts the story of her romance with Che Guevara—”their fitful courtship against the backdrop of the Cuban revolutionary war, their marriage at the war’s end and the birth of their four children, up through Che’s tragic assassination in Bolivia less than ten years later.”
Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett
Graywolf Press | May 7, 2024
The poems in Barnett’s latest collection about “the loneliness that collects in mirrors and faces… are like speculative prescriptions for this common human experience.”
The Curve of Things by Kathy Kremins
CavanKerry Press | May 7, 2024
These poems “celebrate queer love, map loss and liberation, and explore lovers’ scars and the knot of kinship that remains even when love fades.”
The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion by Jennifer Kabat
Milkweed Editions | May 7, 2024
According to Chris Kraus, “The Eighth Moon uses a very light touch to probe the most essential, unresolvable questions of belief, kinship, fidelity, history, and identity.”
The Strange God Who Makes Us by Christopher Kennedy
BOA Editions | May 7, 2024
This poetry collection is “an exploration of memory, mourning, and humanity’s precarious relationship to the Anthropocene.”
The Wildcat Behind Glass by Alki Zei
Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Restless Books | May 7, 2024
Set in 1930s Greece and originally published in 1963, this children’s novel is “an unforgettable tale of family, humanity, and what it means to be free.”
These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher
Book*hug Press | May 7, 2024
These Songs I Know By Heart “weaves vignettes of everyday mythology into an absorbing and honest meditation on the connections in our lives.”
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah
Haymarket Books | May 7, 2024
This book “offers an organizer’s perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.”
Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll by Silvestre Pantaleón Esteva
Translated from the Nahuatl, Spanish, and English by Jonathan D. Amith
Deep Vellum | May 7, 2024
This trilingual book—presented in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl—“beautifully recounts a Nahuatl version of Brer Rabbit, one of the most widespread tales of both the Old and New Worlds.”
The Under Hum by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
Black Lawrence Press | May 10, 2024
According to Ed Roberson, The Under Hum is “a collaborative collection of poems in various poetic forms from perspectives and lines from a wide range of authorial references.”
Fonograf Editions | May 14, 2024
Edited by Jyothi Natarajan and Dao Strom and collecting hybrid-literary works from thirty-six women and nonbinary BIPOC writer-artists, A Mouth Holds Many Things “illuminates and expands the interstitial spaces where text blends, blurs, and morphs with visual and other media.”
A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse
Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
Transit Books | May 14, 2024
A Silent Language is “the essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition.”
Translated from the Spanish by Jona Colson
Washington Writers’ Publishing House | May 14, 2024
According to Jesse Lee Kercheval, this bilingual collection “is a book that sings, that carries you from the first poem to the last, each alert to the terrible beauty of life.”
An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value by Jennifer Quartararo
Fonograf Editions | May 14, 2024
An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value is “a fragmented book-length essay in which we see the city of Detroit through two distinct seasons.”
Before the Storm Takes It Away by Gaylord Brewer
Red Hen Press | May 14, 2024
According to Kevin Wilson, “Before the Storm Takes it Away is a testament to Gaylord Brewer’s ability to perfectly balance sincerity and humor, to find the strangest moments of personal history that somehow feel universal.”
Dispatches from the District Committee by Vladimir Sorokin
Translated from the Russian by Max Lawton
Dalkey Archive Press | May 14, 2024
This short fiction collection is “a revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism.”
Don’t Mind Me by Brian Coughlan
Etruscan Press | May 14, 2024
The short stories in Don’t Mind Me “dig deep into what it means to live in an increasingly connected, but isolated modern world that demands far more than we can possibly hope to provide.”
Exit the Body by Heather Bartel
Split/Lip Press | May 14, 2024
This essay collection “is a meditation on the mind and its place within the body: what escapes, what ruptures, what is created, what echoes, and where we find ourselves on the other side.”
Giant On the Shore by Alfonso Ochoa
Translated from the Spanish by Shook
Transit Books | May 14, 2024
Illustrated by Azul López, this children’s book is “a tale of vulnerability and belonging that explores the enormity of self-doubt and the tremendous potential in taking risks.”
Gigante En La Orilla by Alfonso Ochoa
Transit Books | May 14, 2024
Illustrated by Azul López, this Spanish-language edition of the children’s book is “a tale of vulnerability and belonging that explores the enormity of self-doubt and the tremendous potential in taking risks.”
Good Monster by Diannely Antigua
Copper Canyon Press | May 14, 2024
In her second collection, Antigua “locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living.”
In the Days That Followed by Kevin Goodan
Alice James Books | May 14, 2024
In The Days That Followed “grapples with the sudden knowledge of the existence of a stillborn child conceived out of wedlock and never named, and never spoken of after the relationship had ended.”
Coach House Books | May 14, 2024
In this novel, “a queer writer travelling through India can’t escape the regrets of his past, nor the impending ruin of his present.”
Deep Vellum | May 14, 2024
The chapters in this memoir “move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing.”
Matters for You Alone by Leslie Williams
Slant Books | May 14, 2024
Matters for You Alone is “a spiritual exploration of friendship: its shapes and duties, stresses and blames—and its absolute necessity.”
Of Fathers & Gods by Jim Roberts
Belle Point Press | May 14, 2024
This debut collection of short fiction “delves into the relationships between fathers and their children: the good, the bad, and the awful.”
One Tuesday, Early by Annalisa Crawford
Vine Leaves Press | May 14, 2024
In this novel, the protagonist’s “partner, her friends, her neighbours have all vanished without a trace. The entire town is deserted.”
Out of Darkness: Essays on Corporate Power and Civic Resistance, 2012–2022 by Ralph Nader
Seven Stories Press | May 14, 2024
The essays and columns in this collection “reveal Ralph Nader at his outspoken and prescient best, fighting the good fight against corporate corruption, unbalanced political power, consumer dangers, big pharma, and climate deniers.”
Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! by Garrett Caples
Wave Books | May 14, 2024
This collection of phantasmagorical stories “draws on Marcel Schwob, magical realism, and speculative fiction for inspiration, projecting worlds dominated by dream logic and impossible (and often hilarious) dimensions.”
Haymarket Books | May 14, 2024
In this book, two leaders and former staff members of Jewish Voices for Peace “focus on the important role of anti-Zionist Jewish organizing within the broader Palestine solidarity movement.”
Stealing Home by Sharon Hashimoto
Grid Books | May 14, 2024
In her debut short story collection, Hashimoto “brings us stories that trace the costs of war and internment as felt across generations of Japanese Americans.”
Story of the Everything, the Nothing, and Other Strange Stories by Gyula Gábor Tóth
Translated from the Hungarian by Adam Z. Levy
Transit Books | May 14, 2024
This children’s book of whimsical stories “whisks readers away to lands of paradox and play: to a place where anything can happen, one where everything exists all at once, and another where nothing exists at all.”
The Ascenditure by Robyn Dabney
Regal House Publishing | May 14, 2024
In this YA novel, “Klarke Ascher has a singular goal: to become an Ascenditure, a member of the kingdom’s elite climbing team who scale the treacherous peaks of Miter’s Backbone in search of an elusive medicine.”
The Joyful Song of the Partridge by Paulina Chiziane
Translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw
Archipelago Books | May 14, 2024
“A roiling chronicle of motherhood and colonization,” this novel depicts “the pressure to assimilate in Portuguese-controlled Mozambique.”
The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Europa Editions | May 14, 2024
This novel, which follows seventy-two ragazzi in Sicily, is “a polyphonic tale of immigration and community.”
Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott
Two Lines Press | May 14, 2024
Martínez’s debut novel is “class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun.”
Everyone I’ve Danced With Is Dead by Mamie Morgan
JackLeg Press | May 15, 2024
The poems in this collection “are exquisitely stitched as they offer up lamentation for, and salutation to, the dead.”
Memory’s Vault: The Poetic Heart of Fort Worden
Empty Bowl Press | May 15, 2024
Edited by Bob Francis, Memory’s Vault “offers a retrospective look at a powerful piece of public art and a community’s responses to it.”
Mettlework: A Mining Daughter on Making Home by Jessica E. Johnson
Acre Books | May 15, 2024
This book is “a memoir of Johnson’s unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recession Portland, Oregon.”
Coach House Books | May 16, 2024
Micallef’s book “meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkable.”
Black Lawrence Press | May 17, 2024
This short fiction collection “subverts the reader’s common perceptions about how love can heal, how loss and suffering can transform, and how every character deserves a second chance.”
Morning & Evening by Jon Fosse
Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls
Dalkey Archive Press | May 21, 2024
In his latest novel, Nobel Laureate Fosse “gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed.”
After Dinner Conversation: Equality Ethics
After Dinner Conversation | May 21, 2024
This anthology features stories from literary magazine After Dinner Conversation “about the philosophy and ethics of equality and diversity.”
Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias by Marguerite Young
Dalkey Archive Press May | May 21, 2024
In this book, Young chronicles “two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.”
Red Hen Press | May 21, 2024
According to Amanda Coplin, this novel is “part coming-of-age story, part ode to the landscape of northern Minnesota.”
Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition by Calvin John Smiley
Haymarket Books | May 21, 2024
This book is “a collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecting on the uprisings of summer 2020, the rise of #defund, and the work ahead of bridging the divide between reform and abolition.”
Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik
Book*hug Press | May 21, 2024
Disobedience is “a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of connection and power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us.”
Exile in Guyville by Amy Lee Lillard
BOA Editions | May 21, 2024
In the stories in this collection, “probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled.”
From Where We Are by Nicole Zelniker
Vine Leaves Press | May 21, 2024
In this novel, “each character’s tale begs the questions: What does it mean to be part of a family, what does it mean to survive, and is that enough?”
Good Want by Domenica Martinello
Coach House Books | May 21, 2024
The poems in this collection “open up a series of further possibilities: empathy for difficult people, acceptance of our difficult selves, and joy in every difficult thing.”
Her Best Self by Mindy Friddle
Regal House Publishing | May 21, 2024
This novel “is filled with dark twists, exploring what happens when the transgressions of the past come back with a vengeance.”
Hold Your Own by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Copper Canyon Press | May 21, 2024
Wallschlaeger’s poetry collection is “a steadfast search for peace, self-acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights an everyday challenge for Black women.”
I Will Get Up Off Of by Simina Banu
Coach House Books | May 21, 2024
The poems in this book are “attempts and failures at movement as the speaker navigates her anxiety and depression in whatever way she can, looking for hope from social workers on Zoom, wellness influencers, and psychics alike.”
Inconsolable Objects by Nancy Miller Gomez
YesYes Books | May 21, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Gomez “offers a call and response to all of us stumbling towards connection.”
Bellevue Literary Press | May 21, 2024
Told in two mirrored narratives, this novel “unleashes the wonders and mysteries of childhood in a profound exploration of identity, spirituality, and community.”
Trail Magic: A Physician’s Journey Through the Appalachian Mountains by JoDean Nicolette
Choeofpleirn Press | May 24, 2024
Nicolette’s book “takes readers on a decade-long journey north along the Appalachian Trail, beginning just after she completed her residency as a physician.”
Translated from the Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Lost Horse Press | May 25, 2024
This collection presents unpublished poems “from the immediate ‘pre-invasion’ years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalized.”
A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi
Translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle
Europa Editions | May 28, 2024
In Grimaldi’s American debut, two estranged sisters “must return together to the Basque Country, to the house of their adored grandmother, to empty out her home and in the process to reconcile, to remember, and to pour out what is in their hearts.”
Chaos in Kinshasa by Thierry Bellefroid
Translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger
Catalyst Press | May 28, 2024
Illustrated by Barly Baruti, this Cold War era thriller features “Baruti’s characteristic art and Thierry Bellefroid’s punchy dialogue woven in with the elements of a great gangster story.”
Janusz Korczak: No to Denying the Rights of Children by Isabelle Collombat
Translated from the French by Rosie Eyre
Seven Stories Press | May 28, 2024
This installment of a historical fiction series for younger readers features “the famously heroic doctor, writer, and director of an orphanage who left a powerful legacy of creating a forum for and respecting the dignity of children’s lives.”
Passing through a Gate: Poems, Essays, and Translations by John Balaban
Copper Canyon Press | May 28, 2024
In this collection, Balaban’s prize-winning poems “are threaded through with essays that link poetry to Balaban’s extensive travels, whether hitchhiking throughout the United States or wandering the countryside of Vietnam during wartime to record and translate folk poetry.”
Rosa Luxemburg: No to Borders by Anne Blanchard
Translated from the French by Rosie Eyre
Seven Stories Press | May 28, 2024
This historical novel for young readers features Rosa Luxemburg, “a Polish-born German revolutionary emboldened by the necessity of acting against imperialism, colonialism, and militarism.”
Someplace Generous: An Inclusive Romance Anthology
Generous Press | May 28, 2024
This anthology—edited by Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame and featuring writers such as Richard Siken, Brionne Janae, and Corinne Manning—”presents voices largely new to the genre of romance, each bringing a fresh take on what it means to tell a love story.”
The Default World by Naomi Kanakia
Feminist Press | May 28, 2024
Kanakia’s novel “skewers privileged leftist millennial tech culture and asks whether ‘found family’ is just another of the twenty-first century’s broken promises.”
Vine Leaves Press | May 28, 2024
According to Nick Perry, this historical novel about Charles Dickens is “a dark hymn to pre-Victorian London in all its grotty glory.”
Victor Hugo: No to the Death Penalty by Murielle Szac and Mercedes Gilliom
Seven Stories Press | May 28, 2024
A new addition to the They Said No series, this young adult book “plunges us into the heart of Victor Hugo’s fierce fight against the death penalty.”
McSweeney’s | May 28, 2024
The fifteen poems in this collection “take shape in an equally wide variety of forms as the book takes up haunting questions of home and belonging.”
Regal House Publishing | May 28, 2024
“In this exquisitely tender novel,” writes Brian Hall, “Ollie Curtin is a felon justly convicted, yet a man so otherworldly he’s almost a holy innocent.”
Watcha by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
Deep Vellum | May 28, 2024
Through “free verse, personal photographs, and prosaic gestures,” this collection charts “a vast terrain that ranges from an artistic standpoint, to border crossing, to belonging, to portraiture, to self-portraiture, to abstraction, to death, to a call for action.”
What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression: A Guide for Activists by Victor Serge
Seven Stories Press | May 28, 2024
Serge’s book “offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the Tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian revolution.”
A Bridge Home by Mona Alvarado Frazier
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2024
Set in 1970s California, this novel “highlights elements of California history that are often overlooked, portraying the strength of a community in giving its people a bridge to a better life.”
Bilingüe, superhéroe / Bilingual, Superhero by Jorge Argueta
Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bell
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2024
Illustrated by Elizabeth Gómez, this book “turns the lore of superheroes on its ear while encouraging kids who are learning multiple languages.”
Dionysos Speed by Rainer J. Hanshe
Contra Mundum Press | May 31, 2024
Written as “a burst of epigrammatic sequences,” this book is “an act meant to give birth once again to dissonant desire through the powers of the dice throw.”
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2024
With illustrations by Carmen Lop, this bilingual picture book depicts “a loving intergenerational relationship playing out against the backdrop of nature.”
It Feels Like Family / Se siente como familia by Diane de Anda
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2024
This picture book, illustrated by Roberta Collier-Morales, “picture book explores children’s resiliency in the face of divorce, while emphasizing the importance of extended family.”
Pedro and the Monster Eaters / Pedro y los devoradores de monstruos by Xequina María Berbér
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2024
Illustrated by Rod Unalt C. and loosely based on the life of folk artist Pedro Linares, this book is “a perfect choice for parents and teachers interested in sharing the world of art with their kids.”
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2024
The sixth novel in Garza’s bilingual Monster Fighter Mystery series “culminates in a convergence of supernatural beings—witch owls, the demonic Donkey Lady, curanderos and naguales—all fighting in a life-or-death battle.”
